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CineTalk #8 – The Kiss: A Conversation with Bille August
Only nine directors have ever won two Palme d’Or awards at Cannes, the festival’s highest and most prestigious honor. Danish filmmaker Bille August is one of them. In 2024, he visited Prague’s Edison Filmhub as a guest of the Scandi film festival, where he presented his drama The Kiss — and we had the privilege of sitting down with him for an interview. How does this story, set during the First World War, still resonate today? Why do Danish directors see each other more as colleagues than competitors? And which Czech filmmakers inspired Bille August to devote the rest of his life to cinema?
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Only nine directors have ever won two Palme d’Or awards at Cannes, the festival’s highest and most prestigious honor. Danish filmmaker Bille August is one of them. In 2024, he visited Prague’s Edison Filmhub as a guest of the Scandi film festival, where he presented his drama The Kiss — and we had the privilege of sitting down with him for an interview. How does this story, set during the First World War, still resonate today? Why do Danish directors see each other more as colleagues than competitors? And which Czech filmmakers inspired Bille August to devote the rest of his life to cinema?